Dolls Awards of Excellence 2018 Industry’s Choice Winners

Watch a video of the Dolls Awards of Excellence 2018 Industry’s Choice Winners above, or sift through a slideshow below. The complete list is at the bottom of this article.

Winners Now Become Your Public’s Choice Nominees

The 2018 Dolls Awards of Excellence (DAEs, also known as the Diamond Awards) Industry’s Choice winners were announced June 30 at the International Doll & Teddy Show in Orlando, Florida. The Industry’s Choice winners will now go on to become the nominees for this year’s Public’s Choice Awards, and the winners will be chosen by you, the readers of DOLLS magazine! The Public’s Choice winners will be announced in the January/February 2019 issue of DOLLS magazine.

Photos of the nominees and a paper ballot will be published in the August/September 2018 issue of DOLLS magazine, along with our Reader Survey. You can also vote online here.

Your Chance to Win

This year, we’re also conducting a brief reader survey to find out how we can improve DOLLS magazine for our readers. After submitting your online Public’s Choice Award ballot, you’ll be offered the option to fill out the survey, as well. Every person who fills out the survey will receive one entry in a drawing to win a free one-year subscription (or extension of existing subscription) to DOLLS.

Our Judges

DOLLS magazine sincerely thanks this year’s Industry’s Choice Award judges. Their donation of time and effort in order to evaluate each entry is much appreciated.

Berdine Creedy. A past winner of multiple Diamond Awards, our 2016 Artist of the Year, and a winner of the Jones Publishing Lifetime Achievement Award, Creedy began her dollmaking career in the early ’90s working in porcelain, later began designing vinyl dolls, and then became a popular creator of resin ball-jointed dolls (BJDs).

Stephanie Finnegan. A devotee of all things dolls and bears, Finnegan is the former editor of Teddy Bear Review and DOLLS. She continues today as DOLLS’ senior contributor and blogger. The author of several books on doll artistry and dollhouses, Finnegan is never happier than when she is telling a tale about a new doll line being launched or a forgotten icon being rediscovered.

Jack Johnston. An award-winning doll artist himself, though now retired, Johnston is a Lifetime Achievement Award winner, a dedicated teacher, has authored several books on making art dolls, developed ProSculpt polymer clay, and founded the Professional Doll Makers Art Guild.